Relive Your Favorite Destinations…with Food

Cherry pits are brought to the Stoger family farm in Neuruppersdorf, a small town in the north of Austria, where they are slow roasted, cracked, and then cold pressed into a pure oil. The process makes for oil “bursting with cherry flavor… distinctly different than anything I’ve seen before,” said Kathryn Flouton, vice president of merchandising for Dean & Deluca and one of the sofi judges. ($29)

The "superleaf" Guayusa, native to the Ecuadorian Amazon, gives this tea the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee and twice the antioxidants of green tea with a “clean, beautiful taste,” said Dean & Deluca merchandiser and sofi judge, Flouton. Two recent Brown University graduates started Runa to help the Ecuadorian community; the company now supports 2,000 farming families and employs more than 40 people. ($1.99)

The vinegar is made from merlot, cabernet, and raboso grapes that are grown and processed in northern Italy. Aged for 12 years, the vinegar is poured into different sized barrels in a specific sequence—chestnut, oak, cherry, chestnut, and then oak, a procedure that dates back to the 1500s. ($56)